[Educators] Now...Math???

[Yama Ploskonka]

A while back we were chewing on this also.

It might be harder...

Final consensus was not reached, but my personal take is to 
reverse-engineer Saxon and Singapore, set that in Moodle, and tweak 
through feedback.  I was planning to start on this during Bolivia's 
Aymara Fest, in agreement that further localizing would be easier later 
since ideally it would use few words but rather intuitive 
conceptualizations.

Would be happy to get into putting things together.

Yama


Caryl Bigenho wrote:
> 
> Hi...
> 
> Now let's see what we can dig up for mathematics. 
> 
> About 10 years ago I visited a rural public K-12 school in the Andes 
> village of Toropalca Bolivia.  We brought them a few science resources 
> in Spanish and a class set of hand lenses and 2 small non-electric 
> microscopes which were very much appreciated.  They took us to visit a 
> trigonometry class of about 17 senior students (5 girls!).  There were 
> no books.  Just a chalkboard, teacher, and chalk.  They were pretty 
> impressive!
> 
> This experience is one of the reasons I have been volunteering with 
> OLPC. I realize how great the need is for students in remote areas like 
> this.  At one time I did see a trig text that had been scanned in as a 
> free ebook.  However, I was unable to find any for algebra or geometry.
> 
> Perhaps we can do some more careful searching and come up with a list of 
> free online resources available for math.  Since math, like music is a 
> more or less "universal language", the translations needed would be 
> minimul.  Perhaps some of us with translating skills and familiarity 
> with teaching math could provide translations for them.
> 
> Caryl
> 
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